Psychology Winter 2013

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Department of Psychology • Newsletter,Volume 1, Issue 1
Winter 2013
From the Desk of the Chair
Nabil Haddad, Ph.D.
W
elcome to the inaugural issue of our electronic newsletter. We plan to issue two newsletters
a year to keep our students, alumni and friends better informed about the department’s progress. In
an effort not to overtax your computer’s memory, we will email you the URL for the newsletter and
leave it up to you to open it. Please feel free to forward it to other friends of the department in case
we may have missed them. I invite you to also contact us with news items, suggestions for the newsletter, or any other question or issue concerning the department.
This issue includes two articles about our programs and a few features about the people in the department. First, we wanted to highlight our Indians into Psychology program (InPsych), one of only three
such programs nationwide funded by IHS. We are very proud of the progress that we have made in
this area over the past thirteen years, progress that is largely due to the dedication and commitment
of Dr. Gyda Swaney, the director of the program. The departmental faculty has a firm and abiding
commitment to support this program and to provide the opportunity for Native American students to
become clinical psychologists who can serve their communities’ needs in the future.
The second article concerns our School Psychology program and its expansion. Over the past 30
years, our EdS program in School Psychology has provided the vast majority of school psychologists
working in the State’s school systems. Now, our newly established PhD level program in School Psychology is on firm footing and is on the verge of graduating its first PhD candidate. Drs. Machek and
Beebe-Frankenberger have done a miraculous job in establishing and nourishing this program.
The University of Montana
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The next issue of this newsletter will have a new author for this column, Dr. Christine Fiore, who has
been chosen as the next Departmental chair. She will assume that role upon my retirement this summer. I am certain that she and the faculty will continue to nurture our long standing commitment for
excellence in scholarship and in student mentoring within an open, humane and democratic environment. My thirty seven years as a faculty member of this department, and fourteen years as its chair,
have been extremely rewarding precisely because of this commitment. It has been a good gig!
The Faculty 2012—2013
Back row: Allen Szalda-Petree,
Lois Muir, Nicole McCray, Paul
Silverman, Duncan Campbell,
Stuart Hall, Luke Conway, David
Schuldberg, Dan Denis
Middle row: Tom Seekins, Gyda
Swaney, Nadine Wisniewski,
Craig Ravesloot, Greg Machek,
Yoonhee Jang
Front row: Nabil Haddad, Bryan
Cochran, Anisa Goforth, Jennifer
Waltz, Cameo Borntrager,
Christine Fiore
Not pictured: Margaret BeebeFrankenberger, Jennifer Robohm